Which language would you learn?

[Johann]

I hope studying languages DOES stave off dementia, as someone here said! I'm 71 and over the years, I've "been to school" for a few languages - French, German, Latin, Italian, Spanish, Chinese (hardest of ALL by far!) and Ukrainian. In recent times, I've learned a bit of Bible Greek and picked up some Yiddish. Yiddish wasn't that difficult as it has a lot of German vocabulary content. It's properly written in a slightly modified Hebrew Alphabet - which, believe it or not, my Latin teacher taught me when I was 12. He was a wonderful teacher, who knew over a dozen languages and taught us the Hebrew and Greek alphabets, to show us the story of our own Roman alphabet.

You may laugh and say that Latin isn't very useful but

(1) 65% of English comes from Latin words and there's nothing like Latin to help improve knowledge of English
(2) It sure helps a person know how French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian got to where they are.
(3) If you've learned Latin grammar - you've pretty much learned grammar - period. You have a framework to apply to other languages.

I just decided the other day I should learn Polish. I've downloaded some videos and a free grammar.

Trzymajcie kciuki za mnie! (I hope) that means "wish me luck."

Johann